What Did The High Court Say?

And perhaps it should if it wants to come up with an injunction which is from the 21st century and not the 1800s.

Hence the High Court noted that a timely response was important in the case of Premier League matches for the simple reasons that to be effective, any intervention must take place during the course of a given football match.

The court further pointed out that the operators of online streaming servers regularly altered the IP addresses from which the servers operated.

The Premier League Has Finally Taken Things Seriously

The Premier League didn’t just go to the High Court and presented its evidence of Kodi piracy.

The institution first third an anti-piracy company.

We can’t tell you the name of the company since it is still unknown.

The anti-piracy company was brought in to monitor all the streams that uploaded copyrighted content.

This monitoring process continued for several weeks.

And guess what?

The anti-piracy company was able to identify a large number of IP addresses.

These IP addresses weren’t just IP addresses.

These IP addresses pointed towards locations from where the copyrighted content was streamed and made available to the public for viewing.

For here the problem became a simple one for The Premier League.

The association moved ahead and identified the smaller subset of the online server that streamed copyrighted content.

These are the servers that the FAPL now wants the court to block.

You may be wondering about the criteria the FAPL used to select streaming servers.

But you should stop.

Since the court has not disclosed that particular piece of information.

In other words, those details are a secret.

In official words though, the details cannot be made public because if they were it would make it easier for the Order to be bypassed.

Cut Through The Chase. What Does This Injunction Mean?

Well, first of all, this injunction should be taken as a sign rather than an order.

The sign is clear.

Intern service providers have the freedom to become distributors of content rather than just outlets to the internet.

Internet service providers aren’t providing information anymore.

They are also deciding which information can their subscribers view and share.

Of course, all of this sounds great for the likes of BT and Sky because they pay a lot of money for copyrighted content.

And their cooperation with The Premier League and Internet Service Providers is perhaps justified.

Basically, you have these three big companies who have joined forces to stop people from streaming stuff free through online channels.

The only problem is the way they have done it.

Of course, they have gone through formalities such as going to the court and getting an injunction.

But where was the oversight?

Where was the discussion that had parties from all sides of the situation?

In other words, they have not provided any opportunity to the people to criticize this injunction or the initial move.

Will this injunction get the job done?

Only time will tell.

But for pirates and piracy websites, the UK is fast becoming the next North Korea.

Zohair is currently a content crafter at Security Gladiators and has been involved in the technology industry for more than a decade. He is an engineer by training and, naturally, likes to help people solve their tech related problems. When he is not writing, he can usually be found practicing his free-kicks in the ground beside his house.

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